[Mimedefang] Slave 0 stderr: ignoring text in character set WINDOWS-1255

[Yizhar Hurwitz]

HI.


I see many of the following errors in /var/log/maillog, on several 
different MD machines:


Dec  7 19:53:11 mail mimedefang-multiplexor[1917]: Slave 0 stderr: 
ignoring text in character set `WINDOWS-1255'  at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 660
Dec  7 19:53:11 mail mimedefang-multiplexor[1917]: Slave 0 stderr: 
ignoring text in character set `WINDOWS-1255'  at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 534


All of the machines are in Israel, so WINDOWS-1255 (Hebrew) is expected 
for regular messages,

and also for file names attached to them.


As far as I assume/guess/investigated/understand, it is related to 
filenames in Hebrew, because I found the following:


/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 534:

    my $recommended = unmime $head->recommended_filename;


/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 660:

    my $fname = unmime $head->recommended_filename;


I then looked at the file which implements the "unmime" function

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/WordDecoder.pm

and found this at line #100:

### Standard handlers.
my %Handler =
(
 KEEP   => sub {$_[0]},
 IGNORE => sub {''},
 WARN   => sub { carp "ignoring text in character set `$_[1]'\n" },
 DIE    => sub { croak "can't handle text in character set `$_[1]'\n" },
 );


Now, I understand that this is just an annoying message, but I would 
like to avoid it,

to make my life easier when I "grep" the log for more important errors.

Or maybe it is important?


I also found this in Google:

http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-March/013629.html


On all machines that I see this message I have recent (probably latest) 
versions of MD and MIME::Tools.


I did try to reproduce the error by sending an attachment with Hebrew 
name using Thunderbird+MS Outlook Express,

but I didn't see the error.

I didn't try to reproduce with MS Outlook yet.


Can you help me troubleshoot that error?


Thanks

Yizhar Hurwitz